The Incomparable Mothership

444: Why People Don't Like Musicals

The Incomparable Mothership · Feb 3, 2019 · 1h 25m

The 2 movies

A Hard Day's Night
Covered in a segment of this episode
Gold Diggers of 1933
Covered in a segment of this episode

Show notes

Our Old Movie Club visits two musicals—but they’re both unusual. From near the beginning of the sound era comes “Gold Diggers of 1933”, a Depression-era tale of showgirls and swells and misunderstandings with enormous Busby Berkeley production numbers. And from the early days of Beatlemania comes 1964’s “A Hard Day’s Night”, intended (at least by its financiers) to be disposable boy-band fluff, but ended up being one of the most influential films of the 20th century.

More episodes about A Hard Day's Night

All episodes about A Hard Day's Night